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Flying Eagles beat U-23 Eagles in Abuja

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8 years ago

May 12, 2016

Nigeria’s U-23 team, the Flying Eagles boys on Thursday defeated the country’s Olympic team, the U-23 Eagles 2-1 in a friendly match played in Abuja.

The heart-lifting result has come less than a week to the U-20 boys’ departure to Burundi for a 2017 CAF U-20 Cup of Nations qualifying match.

Daniel Etor scored for the Olympics –bound Dream Team in the 22nd minute off a powerfully –struck free –kick, but Funsho Bamgboye, who scored the last goal of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile equalized for the Flying Eagles 10 minutes later.

Victor Osimhen scored the winner for the U-20 side in the 66th minute.

Wolfsburg of Germany striker Osimhen just cannot stop scoring. The 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Shoe winner also struck the winner for the Flying Eagles in their 1-0 defeat Nigeria National League campaigners Kaduna United in a test game on Wednesday. The Kaduna boys were using the match to test their readiness for the start of the new football season.

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